Carmen Mejia spent 22 years behind bars for the death of a 10-month-old baby boy in July 2003. But instead of treating the incident as an accident, the Texas woman was arrested and accused of murdering the infant. Thanks to new evidence presented, Mejia has been cleared and exonerated on Wednesday, 11 March.
Travis County District Court Judge P. David Wahlberg overturned her convictions for felony murder, injury to a child and injury to a child by omission. This allowed the 54-year-old mother to walk free, leaving the Travis County Correctional Complex at 12:03 a.m. CT, NBC News reported.
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